Re: automating language environment settings

[cgorac@yahoo.com (Crni Gorac)]

Matthias Meulien <meulien@club.lemonde.fr> wrote in message news:<m2n0qxlgle.fsf@clarinde.localdomain>...
> > From time to time, I'm using emacs to edit documents written using ISO
> > 8859-2 charset. Thus, I have first to set language environment to
> > "Latin-2", then to open text file and finally to select "latin-2-prefix"
> > as input method. 
> 
> You can activate the "latin-2-prefix" input method automatically when
> changing of language environment with the following hooks; it also sets
> the default input method for the latin-1 language environment:
> 
> (add-hook 'set-language-environment-hook
> 	    '(lambda ()
> 	       (let ((lang current-language-environment))
> 		 (cond ((equal lang "Latin-2")
> 			(set-terminal-coding-system 'latin-2)
>                         (activate-input-method "latin-2-prefix"))
> 		       ((equal lang "Latin-1")
> 			(set-terminal-coding-system 'latin-1)
>                         (setq default-input-method "french-prefix"))))))
> 
> (add-hook 'exit-language-environment-hook
> 	    '(lambda ()
> 	       (set-terminal-coding-system nil)))
> 
> Note that the terminal settings are useful when you work on a character terminal.
> 
> > So I was thinking about automating above process by creating
> > corresponding emacs mode and then to reference this mode from first
> > line of related documents; if everything setup properly, emacs
> > should be able to apply all necessary settings upon opening
> > document. (...)
> 
> Read about local variables in the info manual. 
> 
> Don't you think that the `C-x RET l' key sequence is enough?

This is exactly what I have to avoid. I know about all of above
mentionned but I'd like not to have to type `C-x RET l' sequence each
time when I open Latin-2 encoded file in order to be able to edit it.
I'd like to have files let know emacs to change language environment
to Latin-2 each time when opened.

Thanks.